When he heard this edict, everyone here looked at Zhang Penghong enviously. Fu Ning'an, a great minister of Wuying Palace, was even more jealous. The Qing Dynasty's position of the non-commissioned officer was divided into three halls and three pavilions, Baohe Palace, Wenhua Palace, Wuying Palace, Tiren Pavilion, Wenyuan Pavilion, Dong Pavilion, and six pavilions, with high-level ranks and orders. The Grand Secretary of the Baohe Palace was the first, and it was not given lightly. The most recent award was in the 37th year of Kangxi. Since the 44th year of Kangxi, the Grand Secretary of the Central Baohe Palace has been vacant.

He was awarded the Grand Secretary of the Baohe Palace and invisibly carried him to the position of chief minister. All the Grand Secretary of the Shangshu Room regarded him as the most respected. After years of his official career, Zhang Pengheng, who was in a high position, had long been in a state of honor. Faced with this sudden honor, he calmly stood up and knelt down and said, "I thank you for your kindness."

Everyone here is very talented, and they all know in their hearts that Zhang Penghong was awarded the title of Grand Secretary of the Baohe Palace for no reason was not a blessing, and Zhenwu was not a place of prosperity. He was rewarded at will. This was just a continuation of Zhenwu's adjustment of the senior officials in the court. It seems that the adjustment of the senior officials in the court is far from over, and the governors and governors in various places will inevitably have some adjustments.

Zhenwu nodded slightly and said along the previous idea: "The way of heaven is natural, and there is no trace to be found. The so-called reincarnation of heaven is the law of nature. Everything is repeated and endless. If you observe carefully, explore diligently, and be good at summarizing and summarizing, you can find out the truth.

Zhu Shangshangshang and the Imperial Heavenly Prison have summarized and summarized the cold and intensive outbreaks of natural disasters in various periods in history, pointed out the causes of spring drought in the north, and revealed the relationship between temperature changes and the cycle of reincarnation in recent years. He wrote an article in the Beijing newspaper with the theme of nature, and allowed debate."

Zhenwu is preparing for the future and finding reasons for the upcoming spring drought. This book is the meaning of the title, and everyone is surprised. Zhang Pengfeng and Fu Ning'an hurriedly bowed to accept the order.

Zhenwu said that the rise of the word, pondered slightly, and said: "Everything has disadvantages, there must be advantages. If there are advantages, there must be disadvantages. As the saying goes, there are difficulties to build a country, and a severe drought may not be without any benefit. I have already sent a letter to Karopa and ordered the Governor of Nanyang Chen Pengnian to go to Siam, Annan, and Myanmar to purchase a large amount of grain, and 600 miles of urgency to Shanghai, Xiamen, and Guangzhou. All merchant ships should go to Nanyang, and they must have full food when returning to their voyage. The food entering the port is exempted from all fees.

There is no need to worry about the food for relief, but provinces cannot wait for assistance. They must actively carry out self-rescue. You are all familiar with government affairs and drought resistance measures. I will not repeat it. I would like to remind you a few points. First, we should use this to vigorously promote high-yield drought-resistant crops. Second, we should prevent multiple disasters of insects, hunger and epidemics caused by drought. Third, we should strictly investigate the regular liquidation of grain storage and charity warehouses in various places. We must severely punish and not lend money."

Speaking of this, Zhenwu looked at Wang Xiangling, the Minister of Works, and said: "The management of flood and drought disasters is the responsibility of the Ministry of Works. Water conservancy projects in various places are built by the imperial court with great efforts. It is necessary to ensure that they can fully play their existing role during the drought resistance period.

In addition, as early as the Qin and Han dynasties, we realized that deforestation and destruction of trees was sometimes prohibited. This occurred in floods and droughts. Although it was caused by severe cold, it was not impossible to improve slightly. The barren land that Australian immigrants had vacant. The forests should be gradually restored. These are temporarily taken by the Ministry of Works to list tree planting as the performance appraisal of officials in northern provinces. The court will be slightly more abundant in the following years. It will allocate special funds for this."

Zhang Penghong, Fu Ning'an, Wang Xiangling, Fang Bao and others felt relieved when they heard these words. As long as there was food relief, no matter how dry they were, they would not have any major problems. Everyone hurriedly kowtowed the leader's order.

Zhenwu glanced at a few people before saying, "For this drought, how to minimize the losses and turn harm into benefits, you can go down and think carefully, and kneel down first."

After Zhang Peng and the other four retreated, the old Jiu Yinzhen bowed slightly and said, "The emperor's heavenly posture is wise and wise, the holy thoughts are profound, the temple is detailed, and the distance is clear, and every meticulous observation is taken. In the process of exposing himself, he turns harm into profit, which actually opens his eyes to ministers and others."

Zhenwu looked at Lao Jiu and Lao Shiliu, smiled slightly, and said, "Brother Jiu, there is no outsider, don't act like a right player. I'm tired enough to hold an air with them all day long, so be as easy as possible." As he said that, he picked up the teacup and took a sip of it.

When he saw Zhenwu performing this posture, Yinzhen smiled and said, "Emperor, I am sincerely respectful. How many emperors can have in ancient times have the courage to turn a drought into benefits?"

"That's the big granary of the Nanyang vassal state and Japan's war compensation. Otherwise, why would I dare to be so calm?" Zhenwu smiled and said, "The ninth brother came to Tianjin for half a year, and it's been a lot of money, but the chores are too complicated?"

Speaking of errands, Yinzhen couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "These bannermen are muddy in the capital. When they arrived in Tianjin, they were Mr. Lengchong. They were all above the top. They were afraid of heavy things, and they were unwilling to do dirty work. They couldn't do technical work well. They were good at talking nonsense. They were really spoiled by them over the years."

Speaking of this, he sighed lightly and said, "I know that the emperor has high hopes for the flag entering the military workshop and dare not slacken at all. However, the foreman in charge has changed one after another, but it is like a lantern. If it is changed, it will be the same.

I investigated it privately, and the most fundamental reason was that the bannermen knew that the court's move was to solve their livelihood, so they were all fearless. The emperor had just ascended the throne, and I couldn't bear to ruin the emperor's interest and planned to delay it again and wait until the new guard army had begun to take shape. Unexpectedly, the emperor's priest arrived in Tianjin."

How could he not be motivated? Zhenwu couldn't help but feel surprised and asked strangely: "They don't want to become formal craftsmen, and they don't want to get two taels of silver for a month's wages?"

"Who doesn't want to increase wages?" Yinzhen said angrily: "They thought that if they could become formal craftsmen by getting a seniority, they said that they had to pass the assessment countless times before they could become formal craftsmen, but not many people believed it."

Zhenwu knew all these things. This was one of the reasons why the bannermen were so lazy and slack. The root of the bannermen was still "grace-raising". They were somewhat similar to eating a big pot of rice and were not motivated. However, Yinzhen's methods were also weaker, and he must pay equal attention to these bannermen.

After pondering slightly, he said: "This group of bannermen has been in the military workshop for half a year. In the past two days, they have the same standard as all the craftsmen in the military workshop. Those who pass the customs will be converted into craftsmen. Those who have not passed the customs will be given another three months. After three months, if they still cannot pass the customs, their relatives or children will start from the new army of the imperial guards and the family will send them to Shengjing."

After a little pause, he added: "Written my order in vernacular and posted it at the gates of each workshop. Without rules, there is no circumference. Military workshops cannot tolerate any carelessness. Those who dare to commit favoritism and fraud will be exiled to Australia."

When he heard this harshness, Yinzhen couldn't help but hesitate: "Your Majesty, have you been a little more harsh? I am worried that they will cause trouble."

"Making trouble?" Zhenwu said disdainfully: "I am worried that I can't find anyone to establish my authority. Anyone who dares to gather people to make trouble will exile Ningguta and become slaves with the armored people."

Yinzhen muttered in his heart, if half of the people caused trouble, wouldn’t this new guard army be destroyed? He pondered slightly before asking: “If someone doesn’t want to go back to the capital, what should he do?”

"Allow." Zhenwu said without hesitation: "But the family members and children of the Imperial Guards must also be resigned." As he said that, he glanced at Yinzhen and said: "Don't worry, they are not stupid. The Imperial Guards uniformly distributed the salary of the vests and the wages of the military workshop. The annual income is more than a top-class family. They can calculate the accounts themselves.

In recent years, the court has been too indulged in the bannermen, and now it must be more strict. At present, the Qing Dynasty's national strength is booming and becoming more prosperous, and it will usher in decades, or even hundreds of years of peace. If the bannermen continues to be lenient, decades will be the case, and we will not only care about the present, but also have to think about the descendants of future generations."

Yinzhen did not dare to say much, so he hurriedly bowed and said, "The emperor's holy thoughts are profound and he respects the orders. An open assessment will be held the next day."

Zhenwu nodded, then looked at the old Sixteenth Yinlu, and smiled and said, "Sixteenth brother, you are twenty years old this year and have been in the navy for two years. What are your plans?"

Yinlu didn't expect Zhenwu to keep him there for this matter. He couldn't help but hesitate for a moment before bowing down, saying, "Back to the emperor, I have never thought about this issue carefully. I have been in Tianjin Naval Academy for two years and have felt a lot. The so-called kindness does not control the army, and love does not establish affairs is not a false statement. I asked myself that I have no talent to lead the army, but I want to stay in the navy again, because I have the opportunity to visit the world because I have the opportunity to visit the world."

Seeing what Yinlu said was true, Zhenwu couldn't help but smile and said, "Sixteenth brother is honest."

"How dare you speak in front of the emperor?" Yinlu said with a unrestrained smile.

After pondering slightly, Zhen Wucai said in a deep thought: "Last year, I asked you to recruit talents and build a research room for firearm improvement in Tianjin. How is the progress?"

"Go back to the emperor, the research institute has been built." Yinlu said, his expression becoming a little unnatural. He hesitated for a while before continuing: "However, everyone has little contact with firearms and does not know where to start to improve them. Now, they are only studying the elevation angle and range of the cannon. Although they are very interested in the rifle of the cannon, they do not understand the principle."

Hearing that it had been built, Zhenwu nodded with satisfaction and said, "It is not a good idea to study the improvement of firearms. There is no need to be rushing. Since you are interested in rifling, you might as well try boldly, try what the effect of adding or decreasing rifling will be, and try what the effect of adding or decreasing rifling will be. Research and improvement will be achieved through continuous attempts.

When you are just starting out, you can’t hurry. First find the research goals and directions, such as the length of the cannon body tube, the relationship between the change in caliber size and range, how to improve the rear-mounted sealing of the cannon, etc. You cannot work behind closed doors, talk to the soldiers more, listen to the soldiers’ complaints, and understand where the firearms are deficient in order to improve in a targeted manner." (To be continued)q!~!
Chapter completed!